Top 100 Men That Quotes
#1. They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
John Ruskin
#3. The Realists
HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?
W.B.Yeats
#4. Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
John Eldredge
#5. Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.
Richard Cushing
#6. Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event.
Tracy Chevalier
#7. Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Garson Kanin
#8. But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.
Ford Madox Ford
#9. Command the murderous chalices ... Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow
Death to Moby Dick!
Herman Melville
#10. One of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
Junot Diaz
#11. You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.
Lawrence Schiller
#12. I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.
Krista Allen
#13. But the soldiers would have gladly given up their beds to a woman." "Yes, and I hate them for it." She pushed him away. "It's the arrogance of men that leads them to sacrifice themselves. Not real consideration.
Karl Schroeder
#14. When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.
Joss Whedon
#15. But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
Thomas Hobbes
#16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16
Lisa C. Temple
#17. There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Miguel De Cervantes
#18. Even in these times of ours," he wrote in 1948, "when political passion and brute force hang like swords over the anguished heads of men, that even in such times there is being held high and undimmed the standard of our ideal search for truth.
Brandon R. Brown
#19. Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
William Shakespeare
#20. A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. And how can one be a slave and not a slave? When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#22. Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
Thomas Carlyle
#23. Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Blaise Pascal
#24. In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Charles Caleb Colton
#25. I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#26. Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such
a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Oscar Wilde
#27. To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.
Lalita Tademy
#30. I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.
Daniel Alarcon
#31. Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#32. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities, the note concludes.
This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.
Donald Barthelme
#33. Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Homer
#34. For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built of What is Known
Will chill the marrow in the bone.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#35. There is not a day that has passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men that I have ever known. Every member of Easy interviewed by this author for this book said something similar.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#37. I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves ... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
Vanessa Carlton
#38. The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it.
Val Bianco
#39. There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
Robert W. Service
#40. He also feels, like most men, that a father should not trust to a daughter's judgement on a decision as important as the selection of her husband.
Cayla Kluver
#41. The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.
Neil Strauss
#42. The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
William Shenstone
#43. I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
Walt Whitman
#44. Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.
Count Of St. Germain
#45. I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.
Ronnie Barker
#46. It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.
Georges Bernanos
#47. There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
William Shakespeare
#49. The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
Leonard Ravenhill
#50. Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals
#51. The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
Billy Graham
#52. There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
Samuel Johnson
#53. The niche markets that catered to Western men were not about establishing relations of trust among men that would lead to business deals.
Kimberly Kay Hoang
#54. To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
James Anthony Froude
#55. We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That's what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are
Clive Barker
#56. I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
Ernest Shackleton
#57. To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me.
David Sedaris
#58. Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.
Tom Paxton
#59. The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
Woodrow Wilson
#60. I'm always cast in these strange men ... that's not me, really.
Anthony Hopkins
#61. It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.
Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster
#62. German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.
Michael Strahan
#63. It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#65. They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).
George Herbert
#66. We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.
Aristophanes
#68. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. MATTHEW 5:16
Anne Graham Lotz
#69. She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.
Marcel Proust
#70. than men, that's all I figured it was.' 'How'd you
Louise Penny
#71. It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking ...
Gaius Iulius Caesar
#72. My father..." He paused painfully, his voice unsteady. "...thought he was drinking the nectar of the gods, but it turned out to be poison. He learned that men don't need gods after all; it's the gods who need men. That's what killed my father.
Gen LaGreca
#73. Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.
Annie Besant
#74. A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
#75. Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.
Pirjo Honkasalo
#76. Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Alfred Tennyson
#77. There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.
Bernard Cornwell
#78. I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.
Isla Fisher
#79. Those men that in their writings are most wise
Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
William Butler Yeats
#80. ...in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that
surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds
that fill our ears, and in the air that fill our lungs.
Joseph Conrad
#81. It's not the titles that honor the men ... it's the men that honor the titles.
J.M. Darhower
#82. Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
Thomas Carlyle
#83. Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
Robert Schumann
#84. Cultures of domination attack self-esteem, replacing it with a notion that we derive our sense of being from dominion over another. Patriarchal masculinity teaches men that their sense of self and identity, their reason for being, resides in their capacity to dominate others.
Bell Hooks
#85. Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity!
A.W. Tozer
#86. Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
Sophocles
#87. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. Lisa blamed Twilight, and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.
Nenia Campbell
#89. It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
Baruch Spinoza
#90. There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.
Greg Behrendt
#91. Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell ...
Richard Baxter
#92. In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
Ashton Holmes
#93. have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.' And
Leo Tolstoy
#94. There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.
Edward Dahlberg
#95. Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#96. Whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.
John Calvin
#97. Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson
#98. Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Max Lerner
#99. People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
Brigham Young
#100. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.
Maureen Dowd
